All backroom synonyms
back room
B b noun backroom
- government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- campaigning — Military. military operations for a specific objective. Obsolete. the military operations of an army in the field for one season.
- legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
- zoo — Berkeley Yacc
- polity — a particular form or system of government: civil polity; ecclesiastical polity.
- jungle — a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
- statecraft — the art of government and diplomacy.
- civics — Civics is the study of the rights and duties of the citizens of a society.
- smoke-filled room — a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.
- foreign affairs — politics: international relations
- political science — a social science dealing with political institutions and with the principles and conduct of government.
adjective backroom
- unobtrusive — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
- clandestine — Something that is clandestine is hidden or kept secret, often because it is illegal.
- secret — done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
- private — privacy
- secretive — secretory.
- hush-hush — highly secret or confidential: a hush-hush political investigation.